415 Media Exclusive: Chaos at KTVU Over Nia Wilson Facebook 'Gun' Photo; News Director Amber Eikel Breaks Down in Front of Shocked Newsroom; Source to 415 Media: 'Job On The Line'; Claudine Wong Also Crying; How The Controversial Wilson Picture Made KTVU's 'Noon News'; Staffers Worry in JL Square

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AT

KTVU; CHAOTIC NEWSROOM

Anchors/Reporters/EP's' staffers

still shaken over Nia Wilson

KTVU News Director Amber Eikel

picture

*The fallout from the inappropriate

picture of murdered Oakland teen

Nia Wilson continues at KTVU;

the latest?

In a stunning display of the angst

that haunts the building, VP/News Dir,

Amber Eikel broke down in the

newsroom; crying and crying all in

front of a shocked staff; according

to my source who witnessed the

scene, anchor Claudine Wong

also began to sob uncontrollably.

Said the source:

"It was the most awkward scene in the newsroom I've ever witnessed and I've seen some beauties."

Claudine Wong smiling here but crying in KTVU newsroom

The source indicated and I've confirmed through multiple contacts that Eikel may have been crying not just for the Wilson picture incident, but for her own future at KTVU: Word is she's more than likely to get fired over the incident. Someone has to take the fall and it appears Eikel is at the top of the list.

Why?

Eikel, says Fox2 contacts, was the only person willing to work for GM, Gregg Kelley.

"He could control her," said the source.

But it was Eikel's own hired reporter and Executive Producer working the morning (and later Noon News) that were responsible for allowing the Wilson photo (in which a picture of her holding a cell-phone case that resembled a gun) made Channel 2's air on its Noon News--so, says the source:

"It falls on her."

The name of the reporter and EP working Monday is not known but the reporter sent a piece back to the station for air and the producer, also not known, quickly pulled the Wilson image off her Facebook account and nobody bothered to check the image and just ran with it.

A newsroom source: "This is another 'fuckin' Asiana!" --referring to KTVU's most recent news blunder in which fake pilot's names off the downed Korean jetliner made it Noon News back in July, 2013, an embarrassing incident that still haunts KTVU today.

And now this. You thought it would never happen again. But it has.

And like the Asiana embarrassment, heads will roll. The first to go is said to be ND, Eikel.

Making matters all the more complicated, a series of protests are set to take place in front of KTVU's Jack London Square studios in the coming days.



#415MEDIA EXCLUSIVE